News that scientists have for the first time genetically altered a human embryo is drawing fire from some watchdog groups that say it’s a step toward creating “designer babies.” May 14, 2008 ...

The “designer babies” are at the centre of a new documentary at the Hot Docs 2022 festival, giving us an inside look at what happened. This film started when filmmaker Cody Sheehy received a call from ...

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical minefield, with fears of a generation of ‘designer babies’ with pick ‘n ...

Munne rejects fears that the technology could lead to designer babies. “I don’t have any problem with perfect babies,” he said. But 70 per cent of embryos are chromosomally abnormal, he said.

Scientists ring alarm on designer babies but one key voice is missing Co-creator of CRISPR Jennifer Doudna has long warned about the danger of genetic editing but she didn't seem to align with her ...

designer babies ethics Designer DNA: Genetic Edits, Ethics, and Pseudo-Prophecy The secrets of our genes can be mined or misused. Our challenge is to sift through the data, utilize the tools, ...

“Designer babies, once found only in science fiction, have become a reality,” the book jacket notes.

A groundbreaking IVF trial has raised hope that women with genetic mutations in their own DNA could one day have children ...

The nation's first "designer" test-tube babies, who will help their seriously ill sisters with stem cell transplants, have been born amid ethical concerns in the medical profession and among the ...

d'Entemont, Yvette. (14 Sep 2019). From curing disease to designer babies, Halifax prof’s book urges caution in evolving world of gene editing. The Star ...